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  Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements (Paperback) By (author) Hugh Aldersey-Williams

  

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  Short Description for Periodic TalesShows that the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories with meaning. This title helps you to learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. It helps you to discover what connects the bones in your body with the Whitehouse in Washington, and more.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 19 January 2012
  • Format: Paperback 448 pages
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  • Categories: Science: General Issues | Popular Science | Inorganic Chemistry
  • ISBN 13: 9780141041452 ISBN 10: 0141041455
  • Sales rank: 23,746

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• Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning. Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll discover what connects the bones in your body with the Whitehouse in Washington, the glow of a streetlamp with the salt on your dinner table. Unlocking their astonishing secrets and colourful pasts, "Periodic Tales" is a voyage of wonder and discovery, showing that their stories are our stories, and their lives are inextricable from our own.